The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-08

Over one hundred and fifty persons
lost their lives, and sixty were injured.
Prospecters are roaming about the
mountain country of Tennessee, seek
ing ore beds. Rich lead and silver have
been found in several localities.
The boiler of threshing engine ex-
ploded near Mount Vernon, Ill.,, on
September 6, injnring five men, three
of them fatally.
A resolution denouncing the knights
of Labor has been defeated in the Ger
man Roman Catholic Convention at
Chicago.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail -oad
has passed into the control of syndi-
cate representing the interests Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
A rennion of Confederate soldiers
will be held at Macon, Ca, in October
next. Ex-President Davis will be pres
ent to review parade in which thirty
thousand soldiers will participate.
Duke Camposeluce, the millionaire
who married the daughter of the Singer
Sewing Machine manufacturer, has
died Of heart disease, brought on by
the earthquake at Mentone.
Every effort is being made by Herr
Bebel and other Socialist leaders to so
arrange the coming International So
cialist Congress that German delegates
shall not be liable to punishment.
China as granted an American
company the exclusive right to erect
telephones in the treaty ports of China
for fifty years. An embassy is in Chi
cago, on its way to Washington, to ar
range for closer communications be-
tween China and the United States.
A Washington correspondent says
that President Cleveland has begun
the preparation of his annual message,
and expects to have the bulk of it
completed before he sets out for st.
Louis on the 30th instant.
A bitter contest between the Cleri-
Gals and Liberals is going OH in MeXi-
co. The former party opposes and the
latter favors closer relations with the
United States.
The corn fields in the Dismal Swamp
of Virginia is overrun with bears, and
some of the farmers have killed or
captured several in a single night. The
Norfolk markets are we'll supplied with
bear meat.
An Ohio oil company has been
formed in Lima, o., by producers whO
intend to market their own product,
and cut loose from the Standard Oil
Company in that regard. Capital
$500, 900.
While Roy Sisk and Dock Street
two boys aged l6, were hunting doves
on Septen ber 6, near Huntsville, Ala,
Sisk's gun was accidentally discharged,
blowing off his nose and the top Of his
skull and causing instant death.
The International Medical Congress
is in session at Washington. The at
tendance Of delegates and their fami-
lies amounts to about 5000. The pro-
ceedings and all the papers will be
printed in English, French and Ger
man.
Stock exchanged hands in the New
York Exchange on Saturday at the rate
of 15O,0 shares an hour, $500 a min
ute, as long as the hours of business
lasted. In its prime the Stock Ex-
change never had much, if any, more
to boast than that.
All vessels from the Atlantic coast
south of the Chesapeake continue to
report hard experience with hurri-
cane. The schooner John L. Treat, of
Pensacola, reports lumber strewn all
along her course from one hundred
miles northwest Of Tortugas to Cape
Hatteras.
Mrs. Cleveland has gracefully de-
clined the honor of presenting the flag
to the New York fire department on
behalf of the donors and citizens of
New York. She was unwilling to par
ticipate so prominently in a public
ceremony in which the President took
no part.
The city council of Richmo nd, Va.
has refused to make appropriation of
fifteen thousand dollars to decorate
the streets on the occasion Of the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the R. E.
monument on October q. Private in
dividuals will subscribe all the funds
required.
The Brady bill which was intended
to enable farmers to plead want of
consideration on notes given for fer
tilizers, and which had passed the
Georgia house of representatives, was
defeated last Monday in the senate by
the deciding vote of the President of
the Senate.
Mayor Hewitt has accepted an invi-
tation to review. the New York Labor
Day parade. He refused, however, to
allow the italian flag to be hoiSted on
the City Hall on that day, and said
that such a thing should not be per-
mitted as long as he was Mayor of
New York.
Six thousand German warriors
marched in procession, through the
streets of Chicago Sunday, to the camp
ground of the North American,
Kriegerbund. It was the fourth ami
versary and grand "come together" of
Gerrnan-born American citizens who
Shouldered arms for the sake of their
Fatherland, especially in 1871.
The Secretary of War has approved
the request of the eX-Confederate AS
sociation at Chicago, to erect memo
rial to the Confederate dead buried in
the Government lot in Oakland Gene
terry, near that city, under such regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the
quartermaster general.
A special from Nicksburg to the
Tines Democrat says: Fully G5 per cent
of cotton in Rolling Fork, Deer Creek
andLake Washington sections has been
stripped of its leaves as though fire had
swept over the fields which, three days
ago, looked so green and promising "
A special from Carencro to the Times
Democrat says: "Cotton in this section
is cut short fully 50 per cent. on account
of worms.n
Mr.. S. NJ. Inman, a leading business
man of Atlanta, has made 4 PROPOSE
ton looking to the relief of disabled
and dependent ex-Confcderate sol
diers. His plan is to sell the old State
Capital of Georgia and with the pro-
ceeds to establish q home for INDECENT
veterans. The DroDOSition has been